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* Overview
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Highly skilled Software Engineer experienced in working with large data sets and
with a keen eye for solid data models and intuitive architectural design for
both flexibility and long-term support. Detail-oriented and organized professional
dedicated to working as a team to deliver results for users and customers.

With free time, enjoys hobbies such as organic gardening, raising livestock,
taking photos, playing ultimate, writing poetry and land management.

* Core Qualifications

+ Opinionated about the Python language and best practices
+ RESTful HTTP API design
+ System architecture
+ Data modeling
+ Agile/Scrum
+ GraphQL API design
+ Modern CI and deployment tools
  - Ansible, Jenkins, CircleCI, Docker, Git, Kubernetes, and AWS
+ SQL, including experience with both MySQL and Postgresql
+ Linux desktop user running i3, Emacs and terminal on most days
+ User/customer comes before the perfect solution
+ Excellent written and oral communication

* Professional Experience

+ 2021.9--Present :: /Remote Principal Support Engineer/ at [[https://www.15five.com][15Five]]
  - Rapidly prototype and deliver internal tools to support our support team
  - Mentorships with Technical Support Engineers, providing them with confidence
    to contribute solutions to our Django admin toolset on their own
  - Managed customer response and technical solutions for major outages in
    application infrastructure, including SAML misconfigurations and failed
    deploys
  - Improve internal security audit logging and prepared audit documentation to
    improve security posture for internal tools
  - Add better logging and provide customer access to SCIM/user provisioning API
    responses
+ 2019.7--2021.9 :: /Remote Senior Software Engineer/ at [[https://www.15five.com][15Five]]
  - Built out ETL pipeline for employee data from CSV files dropped in an SFTP
    folder all powered by AWS/S3
  - Lead project for adding arbitrary "people attributes" to employee data model,
    effectively a custom EAV data store, allowing customers to add and track
    data of specific types on their employees and cut reports based on those
    attributes
  - Partnered with squad engineers to add Zuora payment system to 15Five's
    back-end, including syncing customer accounts with application database.
+ 2018.1--2019.04 :: /Remote Software Engineer/ at /[[https://www.elationhealth.com][Elation Health]]/
  - Built out import script for 400k data points from health care providers
  - Built import tool front-end using React + Django REST Framework
  - Added features to custom JS framework built on Groovy templates
  - Worked closely with product to deliver results to end users, resulting in
    measurable improvements in health care gap closure and improved outcomes for patients
  - Built out and debugged existing clinical quailty measures (constraint
    problems) using a custom constraint solver in Python
+ 2017.1--2018.1 :: /Remote Backend & Ops Engineer/ at /[[https://www.ridecell.com][Ridecell]]/
  - Built out API for managing carsharing via satellite stations
  - Debugged Google Maps API misuse, massively decreasing cost to operate system
  - Helped build out Kubernetes and Docker infrastructure to support microservices
  - Support engineers building microservices with deployment to Google Cloud
+ 2016.10--2017.1 :: /Remote Software Engineer/ at /[[https://phobio.com][Phobio]]/
  - Built out internal API for integrating mobile calendar app with third-party
    calendar and timecard vendors
+ 2014.3--2016.9 :: /Remote Software Developer/ at /Fizzmint/
  - Pre-funding HR software startup
  - Implement backend and frontend for timesheet software using Django + jQuery
+ 2012.5--2016.8 :: /Full Stack Developer/ at /[[https://fiveq.com][Five Q]]/
  - Worked closely with account mangers and clients to build websites based on Django-CMS
  - Implemented flexible content discovery and taxonomy systems
  - Built out SPA converting paper prayer journal to web application using
    Django + Mithril.js
  - Contributed back to Django-CMS and various plugin OSS projects
  - Supporting legacy Django apps using custom content management system
+ 2010.1--2011.6 :: /Web Developer/ at /[[https://penobscotbaypress.com][Penobscot Bay Press]]/
  - Designed and built custom CMS for weekly newspaper with circulation ~10,000
  - Worked directly with stakeholders in newsroom to buid workflows
  - Adapted existing HTML pages to dynamic Django templates
+ 2008.4--2011.6 :: Staff Reporter at [[https://penobscotbaypress.com][Penobscot Bay Press]]

* Education
+ 2000--2004 :: Bachelor degree, English major / Computer science minor at /[[https://lawrence.edu][Lawrence University]], Appleton, Wi/